Mary Karr Quotes

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

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• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Grace
  • Humility

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Think
  • Say

• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Game
  • Golf

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • You
  • Streets

• Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Ideas

• If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Man
  • Path

• Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • World
  • Real
  • College

• Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Song

• The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Family
  • Human

• There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Kind
  • Dark
  • Confusion

• Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Soul
  • English
  • Funk

• I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guys
  • Sport
  • Beat

• There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

  

  Dean Smith
  • Option

• The healthy attitude, the only reasonable one towards a fault made or a sin committed is surely a vigorous shake of one’s moral shoulders, vigorous enough to shake it off and out of remembrance. The sin itself was a sad waste of time and happiness, and absolutely no more should be wasted in lugubriously reflecting on it. Shall we, poor human beings at such a disadvantage from the first in the fight with Fate through the many weaknesses and ailments of our bodies, load our souls as well with an ever-growing burden of regret and penitence? Shall we let a weight of vivid memories break our hearts? How are we to get on with our living if we are continually dropping into sloughs of bitter and often unjust self-reproach? Every morning comes the light, and a fresh chance of doing better. Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Moral
  • Happiness
  • Attitude

• What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Decades

• As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

  

  Mary Karr